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...Cancer Research posed a tougher problem for the social workers than for the doctors. She had cancer of the cervix. She was hundreds of miles from home, and needed a place near by to live for three months while she took regular X-ray treatments as an outpatient. Mrs. Edna Wagner, tireless and efficient director of social service at Anderson Hospital, shook her head: there was no suitable housing for such a patient in segregated Houston. But the woman had a son living in the city. Against her own better judgment, Mrs. Wagner told the patient to stay with...
...patient was back and told Mrs. Wagner: "I'm going home. I'm causing trouble, crowding my son and daughter-in-law, and I'd rather die than cause trouble." A few months later the neglected cancer had spread uncontrollably, and she died. Says Mrs. Edna Wagner: "I told myself that this couldn't happen any more...
...underwrite the convalescent home for the next two years. There are separate and similar accommodations for English-speaking whites and still others for those of Mexican extraction. Last year more than one-fourth of Anderson's 4,098 cancer patients were housed in the facilities organized by Edna Wagner...
Courage on the Plains. "We have to make the patient feel that the staff is interested in him as a person," says Edna Wagner. "We explain that he may have several days of tests before the doctors decide on the treatment for his case. We may remind a wind-tanned cowpoke from Lubbock, who's telling of the rugged old days on the plains, that he may need some of that same courage here. We have to reassure some, like the old Negro who said: 'I ain't afraid of dying-I'm just afraid...
...BEST CARTOONS FROM FRANCE (120 pp.) - Collected by Edna Bennett -Simon & Schuster...